<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mrks_hy</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mrks_hy</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:54:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mrks_hy" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrks_hy in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hah. Anyone with some tokens to burn can compose a report on the data?</p>
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<p>Sure, because there are quite a lot of natural Uranium sources on EU soil. Care to name them?</p>
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<p>Yes, that's what I thought, but wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt.</p>
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<p>Can you please source and explain your claims? They don't match my understanding.<p>For example:<p>> Levelised Cost of Energy is the highest, in the entire developed world, in the UK, which has enough wind and solar installed to entirely meet needs today.<p>Do you mean cost per country (not levelized?)? Even then, UK energy is not the most expensive.</p>
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<p>> Ethanol is produced from corn not for energy purposes, but for food security<p>Source? First time I read this, might make sense. Although I don't see how this corn should be unaffected by crop failure if all other corn harvests failed.</p>
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<p>I swear to god, these uniform AI-driven low effort article intros really get to me: Not X, but Y!<p>Word. After more Words. With. Full stops.<p>Have some pride, at least use a prompt to get rid of this generic lack of style.</p>
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<p>You have presented a good case from the physics textbook for calculating the radiator size.<p>However, what do you reckon the energy balance is for launching the 1 GW datacenter components into space and assembling it?</p>
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<p>That's not my experience at all. The majority of games, especially on Steam, work out of the box.<p>I would advise the opposite: Don't get an old box. Take your new box, take a new hard disk, and just install Bazzite (and pretend you don't know anything about Linux, just stick with the defaults).</p>
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<p>You are mistaken if you think it is about transgression. Old forums had no algo feeds to manipulate the content you saw and steer you. This is the issue, not so much the content itself.</p>
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<p>It helps overly subsidize renewables and prevents price drops arriving directly at the consumer's bill.</p>
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<p>> due to the stupid Net Zero taxes.<p>No. Citation neede. The issue is the moronic way energy auctions are done, first by setting the price to the highest source that can satisfy (always gas) but ignoring (!) geography. Then, phase 2, dropping the impossible providers (i.e. Scottish hydro in the North for South England), and doing another (much more expensive pass). The Octopus CEO had a succinct explainer recently, can't find the video...<p>Found it: <a href="https://youtu.be/5WgS-Dsm31E?t=91" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/5WgS-Dsm31E?t=91</a> starts at 1:31</p>
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<p>You have it backwards. At the current cost curve for renewables and storage, Nuclear will never again be able to compete.<p>See: the overly optimistic SMR plans being predictably scrapped in many places.<p>What you do have is ample land to build out solar and export eg. Ammonia (made out of Hydrogen) for "free" energy.</p>
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<p>How is this not solving the core issue? You need to do both. Ensure the software is made (pay devs), and if you're funding this, make sure it is licensed as a public good (free, oss).</p>
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<p>Does it matter to the OP's point how well-spoken you are? Biting down some non-constructive snark here.<p>Yes, English is a good lowest common language, and it is mostly that announcements are in English. But learning enough of the native language that you are at least puzzled enough to ask another passenger seems like a not very high and reasonable bar for travel-speak to pick up.</p>
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<p>Did you read the article and can point out which part of the specific method would not work in the UK?<p>There is nothing in the outlined strategy that would be made unworkable. You may reach a different value-engineered point, and it explicitly mentions cargo trains as well.</p>
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<p>From TFA, the services:<p>* Pocket<p>* Fakespot<p>* Deep fake detector<p>* Orbit<p>I feel that this is a good thing. Have not used any of them, have been annoyed by Pocket integrations, just want a browser.</p>
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<p>It does, for anybody who studied math at the level you need to understand Attention (some linear algebra).
Please no low effort comments, ask if you don't have the math background and people will gladly help. This is sum notation, see <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation</a></p>
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<p>Not from US, so can't comment on what it does for tax credit, but the treaty benefits should still apply.<p>Also, you should've mentioned that in your OP. Why would a foreign country's tax system care about another country's tax-advantaged investing account?<p>The tax withholding is seperate from any home countrystax obligations, if that helps to understand it. There are treaties to avoid double taxation that then allow claiming these unavoidable taxes at your tax residency. If you don't pay taxes there, usually you're out of luck.</p>
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<p>Sorry to "but actually" you, but that is just because you did not claim the treaty benefits. Pedantic, it is also 26%, not 30%.<p>You should be able to get 15% tax on dividends, which also count towards your US taxes which you stil have to pay.<p>It is also exactly the same for foreign investors from Germany investing in US companies. We have to file a W-8BEN, otherwise the US takes 30% on dividends and even on capital gains!</p>
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<p>Given the broader state of the Python ecosystem, that is a red flag for me. Why would you add an OSS license but withhold the sourcecode?<p>The only reason I can think of is to "trick" people into downloading and betting that no-one actually checks the source, then hiding something in the .so files that are shipped as wheels. Tread carefully.</p>
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